Hellosoft's VoIP software suite runs on ARM coreNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentHellosoft Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a software intellectual-property provider with a development center in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, has readied a voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone software suite that's optimized to run on a single ARM926EJ-S core from ARM Ltd.

Future Horizons sticks to 18% chip market growth forecastNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentWhile several market research firms have revised their forecasts for 2003 chip market growth downwards over the last few months to land in the low- to mid-teens of percent, Future Horizons is sticking with its figure for 2003 of 18 percent, announced in January 2003.

Lithography industry vexed by learning curve, complexity issuesNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentImagine what would happen if Major League Baseball decided to shorten the distance between the pitchers' mound and home plate, then cut the number of spring training days by half. It's safe to say that even the league's best sluggers would be lucky just to connect with the ball when regular season begins. Engineers in the optical lithoghraphy business are going through a similar ordeal as they struggle to keep up with Moore's Law.

TI claims design win for China basestationsNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentTexas Instruments Inc. (TI) said today that its TMS320C64x digital signal processor has been designed into a mobile communications basestations from the Information and Communication division of Siemens AG that support the Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) standard.

Network Processing Forum to release first service APINews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentThe Network Processing Forum was scheduled to announce on Wednesday (April 30) the first of its services Application Programming Interfaces at the Networld+Interop conference, specifying standard software interfaces for implementing Internet Protocol Version 4 services.

Profitable Siliconix sees changing phone marketNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentPower semiconductor maker Siliconix Inc., a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc., made a net profit of $10.0 million on sales revenue of $97.8 million. Sales were slightly down from the $98.3 million recorded in the fourth quarter of 2002 but up 17 percent compared with the $83.6 million recorded in the same quarter a year before.

Metrowerks preps development kits for Symbian platformsNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentMetrowerks and Texas Instruments have developed a customized wireless development kit for the Symbian Platform. The latest addition to the CodeWarrior kit is targeted at the development of 2.5G and 3G applications and mobile devices for hardware based round TI's OMAP platform.

TEL's sales rise but company sees flat year aheadNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentAlthough chip equipment sales increased 12 percent year-on-year at Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), the company announced an annual loss for the second year running on Wednesday (April 30, 2003) and stated its intention to cut 1000 jobs and streamline development and manufacturing operations worldwide.

Bookham struggling to hit end '03 breakeven targetNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentOptical components group Bookham Technology plc said its target of breaking even by the end of this year looks increasingly difficult to achieve "with current market conditions" as it reported revenues in the first quarter ended March 30th 2003 were £21.0 million ($33.0 million), up 47% on the fourth quarter 2002, and up 275% from the first quarter 2002 at £5.6 million.

STATS scores sixth successive quarter of sales growthNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentST Assembly Test Services Ltd. turned in a sixth consecutive quarter of growth but failed to score a net profit as it reported first quarter net revenues of $75.5 million. Sales revenue was up 92 percent over the same quarter a year ago and an increase of 5 percent over the prior quarter.

UMC optimistic about near-term outlookNews & Analysis 4/30/2003 Post a commentUnited Microelectronics Corporation took an optimistic view of the current quarter on Wednesday after release financial results that beat its previous guidance. The company expects second quarter wafer shipments to increase 20 percent, with the PC sector driving the most growth, and thinks average selling prices will remain stable.